Word: dismissed
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This Tuesday the full Faculty will vote on a motion to dismiss D. Drew Douglas, Class of 2000, from the College for sexually assaulting a female undergraduate...
...first thing Congress must do is make the independent counsel accountable to someone. Currently, only the attorney general can dismiss independent counsels. But the attorney general is constrained by political considerations. She could hardly dismiss Starr, no matter how badly he conducted his investigation. Why not give the same three-judge panel that appoints independent counsels, or some other non-partisan body, the authority to remove them...
...first thing Congress must do is make the independent counsel accountable to someone. Currently, only the attorney general can dismiss independent counsels. But the attorney general is constrained by political considerations. She could hardly dismiss Starr, no matter how badly he conducted his investigation. Why not give the same three-judge panel that appoints independent counsels, or some other non-partisan body, the authority to remove them...
...want to put up with it, especially when the prize is a six-year stint as a junior Senator? Perhaps because the alternative ways of pushing her issues are less lustrous. Grunwald says that "when somebody suggests that the U.S. Senate might be the best platform, you don't dismiss it." And there is a larger reason for Hillary to run. She has spent much of Clinton's second term trying to define--in wonky confabs with intellectuals, party leaders and foreign heads of state--a "third way," a progressive politics that hews neither to the left nor right...
...your doctor may dismiss your symptoms as just another winter cold. But while a cold generally lasts as long as 10 days, continued exposure to dust, if you're allergic, can leave you feeling under the weather for weeks or months...